Model Detail
Inkling-NVFP4
—Inkling-NVFP4 is a multimodal model with 276.4B parameters released by thinkingmachines. The model is registered under the image-text-to-text pipeline tag on Hugging Face, distributed under the permissive apache-2.0 license.
Inkling-NVFP4 ships with 276.4B parameters. Total weight footprint is approximately 552.8 GB, which is the relevant figure when planning local-inference VRAM. The apache-2.0 license is permissive, allowing commercial deployment and derivative work without per-seat fees, though attribution requirements still apply.
Inkling-NVFP4 is best fit for mixed text-and-image reasoning tasks such as document understanding. Treat this as a starting matrix rather than a benchmark verdict — the right deployment usually depends on the specific evaluation suite that mirrors your workload.
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